Domenico Starnone The Strega Award–winning Italian author’s “scalding and incisive” novel of marriage and family bonds that come undone in the wake of an affair (Library Journal, starred review).A New...

Sean Gaffney and Seamus Cashman Arranged by subject, Proverbs and Sayings of Ireland, is an illustrated collection of more than 1,000 proverbs, sayings and triads (a three part piece of...

Carol Drinkwater When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancée, Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the...

George Steiner What is "the idea of Europe"? George Steiner names a few essential characteristics. Europe is café culture; Europe is a landscape travelled on foot. Europe is the ever-present...

Roberto Bolano New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to...

Agnes Catherine Poirier Having studied in Paris and London, writing in both languages for the French and British press, Agnes Catherine Poirier plays with national stereotypes - which are both...

Michael Houellebecq LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ageFlorent-Claude Labrouste is dying of...

Roy Hattersley In FIFTY YEARS ON, Roy Hattersley explores and explains the events which have shaped modern Britain. Combining acute analysis of domestic politics with a brilliant eye for the...

Volker Weidermann It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time.Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host...

Dag Solstad Bjørn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned 50 and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his...

Marcel Proust Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Stephen HudsonMarcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is...

David ThomsonEurope Since Napoleon (Pelican) Readings and activities designed to help students improve their comprehension and response skills. Classroom–tested lessons include brief reading selections followed by constructed response and multiple–choice...